Fraud prevention device



sePf. 3, 1935 B. R. GREENISON 2,013,605

FRAUD PREVENTION DEVICE Filed March 7, 1935 WITNESSES NvENToR a'l'fj. 'l'eemso/z Patented Sept. 3, 1935 FRAUD PREVENTION DEVECE Burt R. Greenison, New York, N. Y.

Application March 7, 1935, Serial No. 9,848

2 Claims.

This invention relates to fraud prevention devices, and more specically to means applied to a bottle or other container which will insure the purchaser receiving the original contents. In other words, I provide an improved closure for the neck of the bottle which cannot be moved to open position without breaking a fragile ccnnection and which when once moved to open position cannot again be returned to closed position.

A further object, therefore, is to provide an improved package which is in a real sense sealed and requires breakage to remove the contents.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure l is a view in vertical section illustrating my improved device in connection with a bottle;

Figure 2 is a top plan view showing in full lines the closed positionand in dotted lines the open position of the upper or outer disk;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure I, the View being taken on the line 2 2 of Figure 3; and

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view mainly in elevation and partly in section illustrating a. modification.

I represents a bottle having the ordinary neck 2 and on the shoulder of the bottle adjacent the neck 2 I provide a fragile post 3, which is preferably of glass and constitutes an integral part of the bottle, and is molded when the bottle is formed, although the post may be otherwise formed on the bottle, as desired.

The post 3 has an annular groove or weakened portion 8 near its lower end, so that when the post is broken it will break at its weakened portion 4. 5 represents a cap which may be of rub* ber or other suitable resilient material, and which is fitted over the lower portion of the post and normally covers the weakened portion I of the post. This rubber cap 5 has a slitted opening 6 therein, the walls of which are expanded when the cap is inserted over the post, and when the post is broken oli this cap will close and cover the exposed end of the post so as to prevent any possibility of the user injuring his hands by the jagged end of the broken post.

The bottle neck 2 is closed by an inner disk 'I and an outer disk 8. These disks may be of metal or any other suitable material and are connected centrally by a rivet S. The inner or lower disk 'I is secured to the bottle neck 2 in any approved manner. I have shown the disk as having a depending ange I8 which may be cemented or otherwise secured to the outer face of the neck, and under this disk l a. packing disk I I is located and held tightly against the end of the bottle 5 neck. This disk I I may be of cork or any other suitable material and constitutes an air and liquid-tight closure for the bottle. The upper or outer disk 8 may also have a depending annular flange I2 which hides the inner disk and its 10 iiange, and affords a sufficient surface to enable the operator to easily turn the disk.

The disks I and 8 have pouring openings I3 and I4, respectively, therein and these pouring openings are normally out of register. The upper or 15 outer disk 8 carries a spring-pressed plunger I5. This spring-pressed plunger I5 is mounted in an upwardly off-set pocket i6 on the disk and the plunger t5 rides against the upper face of the disk I and is normally out of register with a recess 20 I'I of the disk l. This recess II is so located that when the upper or outer disk 8 is turned tol a position to register the openings I 3 and I I the plunger I5 will spring into the recess Il and lock the outer disk against movement. Thus, when 25 the outer disk is turned to its open position it cannot be again turned or moved. When the outer disk is turned to register the openings I3 and I4 a suitable tool may be inserted through said openings to punch a hole in the packing disk I I so 30 that the contents may be poured out through the registering openings.

An angle arm I8 constitutes a xed part of the disk 8 and it may, as illustrated, constitute an integral part of the ange I2 of the disk 8. The 35 arm I8 has an opening I 9 therein normally receiving the fragile post 3. Thus, it will be noted that it will be impossible to turn the disk 8 without breaking the fragile post, and this breaking may be done by the turning movement of the 40 disk or the manual breaking of the post before the disk is turned.

In the modification illustrated in Figure 4 of the drawing, I show a wire 2t which is at one end embedded in the material of the bottle, and its 45 other end is secured to the disk 8, so that this wire constitutes a fragile post or connection which must be broken before the disk can be turned to open position.

While I have illustrated what I believe to be 50 the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be distinctly understood that various slight changes may be made with regard to the form and arrangement of parts without departing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself 55 to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the claims.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a bottle having a neck of a disk secured on the end of the bottle neck, an upper disk above the rst mentioned disk and pivotally connected thereto at its center, said disks having openings therein normally out of register, and a concealed locking device between the disks adapted to lock the disks against independent movement when the upper disk has been turned to register its opening With the opening in the lower disk, said locking device comprising a spring-pressed plunger housed within the upper disk and said lower disk having a recess into which the plunger moves when the outer disk is turned to open position.

2. The combination with a bottle having a neck of a disk secured on the end of the bottle neck, an upper disk above the rst mentioned disk and pivotally connected theretoy at its center, said disks having openings therein normally out of register, a concealed locking device between the disks adapted to lock the disks against independent movement when the upper disk has been turned to register its openings with the openings in the lower disk, said locking device comprising .a spring-pressed plunger housed wit-hin the upper disk and said lower disk having a recess into which the plunger moves when the outer disk is turned to open position, and a packing disk under the lower disk and adapted to have an opening punched therethrough when the openings of the rst mentioned disks are in register.

BURT R. GREENISON. 

